In order for our Website to function properly, information about your website visit may be collected through “cookies”, a tracking mechanism that is widely used by most websites nowadays.
A “cookie” is a small data file sent to the user’s browser by an Internet server and stored on the hard drive of the user’s computer or mobile device to allow the website to recognise the user when he/she visits the website again using the same computer/device and the same Internet browser either during a single visit (“session cookie”) or for subsequent visits (“persistent cookie”). Other similar files (or tracking technologies) work in the same way and in this Policy, MICROANALYSIS IATRIKI ATHINON ANONYMI ETAIREIA (hereinafter the “Company”, “we”) uses the term “cookies” in order to describe all similar technologies which collect personal information in this way.
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors and to personalise and store certain settings so that we do not need to ask you for information you have already provided, the next time you visit our Website. In addition, cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and to calculate traffic information about the Website to ensure that it meets its original objectives and generally improve it.
Types of Cookies
In addition to the cookies that our Company installs for the functionality of the Website (strictly necessary – functionality cookies), our Company uses cookies that are installed on your device by third parties (“Third Party Cookies”). Typically, Third Party Cookies are analytics or performance cookies and allow us to monitor and analyze web traffic, monitor the behaviour of our users and be aware of the quality, performance and effectiveness of our Website. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when you visit this Website and when you visit certain other websites.
Specifically on this Website, we use the following cookies:
– Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the proper functioning of our Website. They allow you to browse and use features of our Website and store preferences and settings (e.g. language and country, login information, browser and plug-in settings). These cookies can not identify the user. The cookies remain active as without them the effective operation of the Website is not possible. Without them, certain applications and features may not function properly or at all.
– Analytics/performance cookies. They allow us to identify and count the number of visitors, see how visitors navigate our Website when they use it, the time they spend, the pages they re-visit, the keywords entered in the search field, etc. These cookies help us improve the attractiveness, content and functionality of our Website and provide aggregated and therefore anonymous data about its use and performance. Performance cookies collect aggregated, anonymous statistical information that cannot lead to visitor identification, and we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to process your data securely, e.g. IP address anonymisation. These cookies are optional and are only installed with the user’s consent. The user can withdraw or change the content of his/her consent regarding the use of cookies on our website at any time and decide to remove them.
In particular, our Company uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. As part of the “Google Analytics” service, cookies are placed on your computer for the statistical evaluation of your use of our website. The information generated by these cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) is anonymised through a process called IP masking before being stored on Google’s servers, so that it can no longer be matched to a computer. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google stores the anonymised data on servers in the USA. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be identified or associated with any other data held by Google.
More information about the conditions under which Google Analytics collects and processes the information is available on the following website: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=el. In addition, you have the option to block the collection of your data by Google Analytics altogether by installing the add-on in your browser (browser): https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
– Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our site and thus to customize our content for you, but also to find your preferences – your settings from previous visits (for example, when you have chosen to save your password, in our portal).
Options to disable cookies
The user may disable the cookies at any time through the relevant control panel provided by the Website or through his/her browser. Most browsers explain how the user can stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when a new cookie is received, and how to disable existing cookies. For more information on how to manage cookies in your browser, please refer to the following links (as they are URLs at the current update of this Policy, the content of which may be subject to change):
Please note that generally deactivating cookies may lead to functional limitations of our Website.
If you have any questions about our use of “cookies” or other technologies, please contact us by email at microanalysi@microanalysi.gr or to our data protection officer at dpo@microanalysi.gr
This Privacy Statement was last updated in July 2023.